On Thu, 2012-02-16 at 10:43:53 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> I was thinking more about this, and I was finally able to put a finger on
> why I don't like package splitting as a solution.
>
> We know from prior experience with splitting packages for large
> arch-independent data that one of the more common mistakes that we'll make
> is to move the wrong files: to put into the arch-independent package a
> file that's actually arch-dependent.
This was brought up by Steve in the thread, my reply:
<http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/02/msg00497.html>
regards,
guillem